Patterns for New(ish) Startup Execs
A series on “not-advice.” I spent my summers as a kid in Popcorn, Indiana (a real place, I know), where my grandmother had a sewing room with a magnet that said “She who dies with the most fabric wins.” She was a master creator, making me matching outfits with my Samantha American Girl doll and my brother, knitting quilts for all of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and inventing twists on potholders and potluck carriers and pot scrubbers. One summer, she took me to Joann ...
Patterns for New(ish) Startup Execs
A series on “not-advice.” I spent my summers as a kid in Popcorn, Indiana (a real place, I know), where my grandmother had a sewing room with a magnet that said “She who dies with the most fabric wins.” She was a master creator, making me matching outfits with my Samantha American Girl doll and my brother, knitting quilts for all of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and inventing twists on potholders and potluck carriers and pot scrubbers. One summer, she took me to Joann ...
A Retrospective on TMF Cohort 1 🧐
What we learnt building and running a fellowship helping people build meta skills for navigating their careers 💼 and leveling up 📈 after getting initial traction in tech Yup, navigating the idea maze can often feel just like this … Image Source tl;dr: In Mar-Apr 2022, Karen and I collaborated and ran the first cohort of The Meta Fellowship (no affiliation to the company fka Facebook), so named because we wanted to empower people with the meta skills we thought were important to help people ...
A Retrospective on TMF Cohort 1 🧐
What we learnt building and running a fellowship helping people build meta skills for navigating their careers 💼 and leveling up 📈 after getting initial traction in tech Yup, navigating the idea maze can often feel just like this … Image Source tl;dr: In Mar-Apr 2022, Karen and I collaborated and ran the first cohort of The Meta Fellowship (no affiliation to the company fka Facebook), so named because we wanted to empower people with the meta skills we thought were important to help people ...
3 Tips To Maximize Your Productivity
Have you ever felt that you have so many things to do, but so little time to complete them? Productivity allows us to make better use of our time. By saving a little time here and there, over the long run, it actually saves you a lot of time. These time savers might seem small initially, but compounded over time, they allow you to do a lot more, thus achieving more than your peers and competitors.Don’t Say You Don’t Have TimeEveryone has 24 hours every day. Elon Musk has 24 hours. He is able ...
3 Tips To Maximize Your Productivity
Have you ever felt that you have so many things to do, but so little time to complete them? Productivity allows us to make better use of our time. By saving a little time here and there, over the long run, it actually saves you a lot of time. These time savers might seem small initially, but compounded over time, they allow you to do a lot more, thus achieving more than your peers and competitors.Don’t Say You Don’t Have TimeEveryone has 24 hours every day. Elon Musk has 24 hours. He is able ...
How much do you know?
Needless to say, I might not need this information in my life, EVER! For example, I have no idea why I know what different beers taste like. I have never tasted them. Nor am I going to. I just watched a YouTube video about it once and now I know. The self-loathing that comes from not knowing enough is unbearable. To ease the pain, I am always in rush to find new information. Information of any kind. If I don’t know something and I know I don’t know this, I want to know now. Gave you a headach...
How much do you know?
Needless to say, I might not need this information in my life, EVER! For example, I have no idea why I know what different beers taste like. I have never tasted them. Nor am I going to. I just watched a YouTube video about it once and now I know. The self-loathing that comes from not knowing enough is unbearable. To ease the pain, I am always in rush to find new information. Information of any kind. If I don’t know something and I know I don’t know this, I want to know now. Gave you a headach...
Top 3 Things To Keep Your Finance In Check
Do you feel that you are so overwhelmed with the world of personal finance? Do you think that retirement is still soooooo many years ahead of you? I feel the same when I just started out as a beginner. Here are the top 3 things to keep your finances in check. They might look simple, but they contribute to 90% of your finances.Annual Review Of Your FinanceWhat gets tracked, gets results. Being a person that is good and obsessive with data and numbers, I love to track my finances. From daily tr...
Top 3 Things To Keep Your Finance In Check
Do you feel that you are so overwhelmed with the world of personal finance? Do you think that retirement is still soooooo many years ahead of you? I feel the same when I just started out as a beginner. Here are the top 3 things to keep your finances in check. They might look simple, but they contribute to 90% of your finances.Annual Review Of Your FinanceWhat gets tracked, gets results. Being a person that is good and obsessive with data and numbers, I love to track my finances. From daily tr...
